Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-06-01
PERSONALITIES.

Mrs. CLEVELAND objects TO hnger-
rings; she only wears one, her wedding
band.
LORD EDGAR CECIL, younger son of
the Marquis of Salisbury, has been ad-
mitted to the English bar.
THE Queen Regent of Spain review
ed her troops last week. Her escort
consisted Of forty generals.
GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA, who has
been i'll for year, has regalned his
health by g. sojourn at Rome.
CAPT. BOYCOTT, the original Boycott
is now the agent for the Flixton Hall
estate, near Bungay, in Suffolk.
JOE JEFFERSON says he has never
been in Texas, but hopes to play in
several cities in that State next sea-
son.
M. HEBERT, who lately died in
France in his eighty-seventh year,
was Louis Philippe's last minister OF
justice.
letter ofOssowattomie Brown brought
$50, while one of George Washington
sold for 1915.
FRED S. FISH, president of the New
Jersey Senate, derived an income of
$4,000 last year from the American
Cotton Oil Trust.
CYRUS w. FIELD began life at So
week, and is now worth 500, 900.
He doesn't drink, and never struck
for eight hours or Saturday pay
day.
hn
patron of the Vega expeditions, has
been ennobled by his friend King o.
car of Sweden, and is now styled Baron
Dickson.
ANDREW CARNEGIE paid $3.50 for g.
box at Walt. Whitman's lecture in
New York, although he could not be
present. 1t made the old poets bene-
fit a success.
The gifts of the late VIM. De Paw,
Indiana glass manufacturer, to the
Greencastle (Ind.) University, which
bears his name, amount to more than
81, 100000.
THE author of ''Home, Sweet
Home" never had home, and George
Macdonald, who has eleven children,
is the author Of "Annals of a Quiet
Neighborhood."
ROBERT BONNER, of the New York
Ledger, lives in q square, brown-stone
house, which is 81 copy OF hundreds of
others in New York. He is worth
$5,OOO,OOO or $6,OOO,OOO.
JONAS G. CLARK, who proposes to
found new university in Worcester,
called after his name, has enlarged the
wow, Iiboro IF hIc nrioi N
scheme and now proposes to give
1000, 900 in money and In property,
real and personal.
MRS. RICHARD FL. DANA, who was
Miss Edith Longfellow, and Mrs. Jo-
seph G. Thorpe, who was Miss Anna
allegro Longfellow, both daughters Of
the poet, are building houses on his
former estate, which they will occupy
when finished.
ALBERT V. DE GoICoURIA is the ath-
lete of the New York Stock Exchange.
He is s. Cuban by birth. He married
the youngest daughter of thelate Will.
lam Wall, once mayor o. Williams
burg. She is an aunt of the we'll
known Berry Wall.
RALPH WALDO EMERsoN's son is a
man of many tastes. He was once g.
| physician IN Concord, but abandoned
the profession of medicine for that of
art. His paintings show his heredi-
tary love of nature, and his land
scapes are exceedingly we'll done.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS is receiving
much social attention in Europe, but
| the newspapers there make the mis-
take of supposing him to have been B.
| United States senator. ''From Slave
| to Senator" is g. head to be seen on
many articles concerning him.
SENATOR LELAND STANFORD has
been inspecting his big vineyard at
Vina, Tehama County, California
| 1t is the largest vineyard in the world,
having not less than $500 acres
planted in bearing vines, while the en-
tire ranch comprises 10000 acres.
BISHOP WILLIAM TAYLOR, whose self
supporting missions on the Congo at
tract great attention, is a, splendid
| looking man, with piercing eyes and
very bright countenance. His beard
is OF silky texture and is long and
spreading and OF pure white.
w. W. STORY has finished in Rome g.
| STATUE OF CnrlSG. III Ar6D Or0SS. Un0
head bound with a scarf and the
shoulders covered by asquare mantle.
The figure is that of g. tall, slender
young man, with the left hand rest
ing on the breast and the right ex-
tended.
NATHANIEL GREENE, of Newport, r.
l., is a grandson of the famous revo-
lutionary General of the same name.
He is prominent citizen Of Rhode
Island, and president of the State So
oiety of the Cincinnati, q position
which his illustrious ancestor first
filed.
THERE is a cup bearing the name of
?. Z. Barnum in Tom Higginson's
barber shop in New York. Thirty
years ago the great Snowman used to
patronize this shop regularly, but it
is long time now since he has al
lowed Tom to trim his hair and scrape
his face. That was the place in which
he bought an Irishman's turn in the
chair, saying ne would pay mis- bill,
and Tom Hlgginson not only shaved
the man, but shampooed him, curled
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